Only, the service had changed. Food was no longer provided free of charge, but for a fee.
After thinking for a moment, Mu Rufeng asked, "Your train used to provide free food. Does it not anymore?"
"Sure enough, Contract Holders are all poor wretches, just like bedbugs."
The attendant wore a look of utter disdain. Then, from a smaller bucket beside the iron pail, she scooped out a portion of black sludge and handed it to Mu Rufeng.
Mu Rufeng could clearly see that the black sludge was mixed with strands of hair and some unknown insects.
Along with that nauseating stench, it was hard to imagine where this free food had come from.
"It reeks beyond bearing. How could anyone swallow something like this?"
"Is this the only food your train provides?" Mu Rufeng asked in a deep voice.
"Hm? So, you don't want to eat?" the attendant said coldly.
"Is this fit for human consumption? Is this your service attitude?" Mu Rufeng berated her.
"What's wrong with my service attitude?" The young female attendant licked her lips, a bloody glint in her gaze as she looked at Mu Rufeng.
"Let's not even mention the hair in this free food. Look at the food you're selling for money—there's a huge maggot still wriggling inside."
"If I'm not mistaken, it should have fallen out of that passenger's mouth earlier, right?"
"And you still want to keep selling this food? Yet you say there's nothing wrong with your service attitude?" Mu Rufeng rose to his feet and rebuked her coldly.
"So what?" The young female attendant tilted her head, looking at Mu Rufeng with a blank expression.
"So what? This food isn't fit for human consumption at all. I want to dine in your Dining Car," Mu Rufeng said.
"The Dining Car?" The young female attendant sneered, and a terrifying malice spilled forth from her body.
Ghostly aura visibly leaked out.
"You want to go to the Dining Car? Passenger, do you not know that the minimum spending requirement in the Dining Car is one thousand Soul Coins?"
"Since you've asked to change carriages, I'll grant your request. But if you can't produce the Soul Coins, I won't mind twisting your head off to quell my anger."
The young female attendant licked her lips, her face bloodthirsty as she spoke.
Mu Rufeng communicated with the Black Gold Card. A flash of black light appeared in his hand, and ten hundred-denomination banknotes materialized there.
"Is this enough?" Mu Rufeng asked calmly.
Seeing the stack of banknotes in Mu Rufeng's hand, the young female attendant was plainly stunned.
Smack!
Mu Rufeng forcefully slapped the stack of banknotes across the young female attendant's fair cheek.
"This is your tip. Can I go to the Dining Car now?" Mu Rufeng said.
Ten one-hundred-denomination Soul Coin notes scattered across the ground.
The Oddities nearby, who had long since noticed the commotion, stared wide-eyed at the Soul Coins scattered all over the floor.
The old granny seated beside them, in particular, was utterly incredulous.
"He has Soul Coins. This living human actually has so many Soul Coins."
"One thousand! That's a whole thousand Soul Coins."
The young female attendant finally came back to her senses. She immediately crouched down and began swiftly gathering up the Soul Coins.
When she stood again, she had already put on a smiling face.
"Dear sir, please forgive my earlier rudeness."
"You may now proceed to the Dining Car. The Dining Car is located in Carriage 1." The young female attendant had become exceedingly enthusiastic.
She also immediately withdrew the ghostly aura she had released earlier.
"Then why haven't you moved those black-stockinged legs of yours and made way for me? What, do you expect me to fly over?" Mu Rufeng said calmly.
"My apologies, sir. It was my oversight." The young female attendant immediately pulled the trolley back several steps, clearing a path for Mu Rufeng.
"Oh, right, sir. This is your meal card. With this proof, attendants in the other carriages won't attack you."
As the young female attendant spoke, she took out a meal card and handed it to Mu Rufeng.
"Mm." Mu Rufeng nodded, stepped into the aisle, and headed toward Carriage 7.
You Die, I Live, Skill activation successful. The enemy has died. All attributes increased threefold. Duration: one hour. You Die, I Live, Skill activation successful. The enemy has died. All attributes increased fourfold. Duration: one hour. ... You Die, I Live, Skill activation successful. The enemy has died. All attributes increased tenfold. Duration: one hour.
Every Oddity passenger in this carriage harbored intense malice toward Mu Rufeng.
This also allowed Mu Rufeng to smoothly max out his Rule Skill.
At that moment, Mu Rufeng felt his entire body brimming with strength, while his mind had never been clearer.
Mu Rufeng was now certain that confirming whether someone was an enemy was simple. As long as they harbored malice toward him, they could be judged as an enemy.
Moreover, as long as he harbored malice toward someone else, they could likewise be judged as an enemy.
Sure enough, in this Oddity World, every Oddity was in a "dead" state. This place was practically a paradise for his Rule Skill.
Mu Rufeng opened his personal attribute panel.
Name: Mu Rufeng Age: 24 Level: LV1 Strength: 154 (14+140) Spirit: 121 (11+110) Constitution: 154 (14+140) Contract Slot: None Skill: You Die, I Live Items: Fragrant Bandages, Resentful Cleaver, Dorm Manager's Secret Recipe Candle x2, Matches, Singing Mouth, Black Gold Card Soul Coins: 10000000000003178
Looking at that string of zeros in his Soul Coin balance, it was pleasing no matter how he looked at it.
Tipping—he had never even done it in the real world. Who would have thought that his first time would be tipping an Oddity girl in the Oddity World?
Still, to be fair, tipping did feel pretty good. Haha!
At that moment, Mu Rufeng arrived before the two newbie players and stopped.
It was not that Mu Rufeng did not want to keep walking. Rather, the two had stood up and stretched out their hands to block his path.
"You're called Mu Rufeng, right? You should be an official too. You have to save us."
"Yeah, yeah! That black sludge is too disgusting. I don't want to eat it."
"I saw that you seem to have a lot of Soul Coins. Can you lend us some so we can go eat in the Dining Car too?"
The two were a man and a woman. The man was around forty or fifty, chubby, dressed in disarray, with lipstick marks on his face and reeking of alcohol.
He had clearly just been dragged into the instance from some bar.
The other was a woman around twenty-five or twenty-six. She was dressed provocatively, and the layer of powder on her face was thick enough to leave a faceprint on black cloth.
"How much do you want to borrow?" Mu Rufeng asked.
"Borrow... one thousand—!" The provocatively dressed woman had just started to speak when the middle-aged man cut her off.
"Borrow ten thousand. Lend me ten thousand. I guarantee I'll pay you back very soon."
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